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A Husband’s View On Post Partum Depression (Published in The Good Men Project)

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Alexis had never suffered from mental illness, and her middle name, Joy, aptly represented her vivacious and carefree personality. But right after the birth of her daughter, Adriana, Alexis’s demeanor changed drastically. Her primary care provider, OB-GYN, pediatrician and even Continue reading A Husband’s View On Post Partum Depression (Published in The Good Men Project)→

“Operation Finale” Clarifies My Grandmother’s Eichmann Trial Obsession (Published in the Times of Israel)

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Every year on Yom Ha’Shoa, my grandmother, Miriam, who was not a Holocaust survivor, curled up in her overstuffed tan leather chair in front of her black and white TV to watch the rebroadcasting of the Eichmann trial. It was Continue reading “Operation Finale” Clarifies My Grandmother’s Eichmann Trial Obsession (Published in the Times of Israel)→

A Simple Family Heirloom Unlocked a Dark Family Secret (Featured in various Hearst Publications)

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When my daughter was born, my mother gave me a comb that my grandmother Ella (born Esther) had given her. That comb, it turned out, had great history attached to it. My mother first found the comb in my grandmother’s jewelry box Continue reading A Simple Family Heirloom Unlocked a Dark Family Secret (Featured in various Hearst Publications)→

This Is Why I Left My High-Paying Job As An Attorney (Published In Town & Country)

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“I’m not accepting your resignation,” my boss said after I worked up the courage to resign from my job at a law firm. “Go home and figure it out, but you’re not quitting.” Naturally, I assumed she was joking, but when Continue reading This Is Why I Left My High-Paying Job As An Attorney (Published In Town & Country)→

In Memory of the July 1942 Roundup of Paris’s Jews (Published in The Times of Israel and Huffington Post)

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Tatiana De Rosnay’s Sarah’s Key spent two years on the New York Times Bestseller List, and even longer than that on my nightstand before I finally read it. I regret not reading it sooner, as it would’ve drastically transformed my family’s Continue reading In Memory of the July 1942 Roundup of Paris’s Jews (Published in The Times of Israel and Huffington Post)→